Rehabilitation Quotes

“Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”
― Edward Humes, No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

“[His pain] wasn’t a punishment. It wasn’t a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn’t all his life was, not always.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Dance With Me

“there's something about trauma to the mind, body and soul. One day your normal and the next your different; you don't know what changed but you know nothing's the same and all of a sudden you are learning to adapt yourself to the same environment with a whole new outlook. I guess you realise your not invisible and every aching bone bleeds it's sorrow through anguish in your movements. One day it'll get easier, because I'm telling myself it will and that's the difference between becoming a pioneer through this disaster when all thought I'd be a slave to pity.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
Are you ready?
What will YOU do?”
― Cornelia Connie D. DeDona

“In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.”
― Norris Henderson

“Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health.”
― Tom Drury, The Driftless Area

“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“Some rent control ordinances permit a landlord to evict a tenant in order to rehabilitate a unit. [....] Such evictions are usually conditioned on the landlord's obtaining all necessary permits before the eviction. Some ordinances require that the tenant be given (1) the right to occupy any vacant unit that the same landlord owns within the city, (2) the right to reoccupy the vacated unit on the completion of the rehabilitation work, or (3) a payment to defray the costs of relocation. [....]
A landlord who refuses to allow the tenant to reoccupy the vacated unit is subject to liability under the governing ordinance.”
― Myron Moskovitz

“Le déguisement ne me déguisait plus et sans le déguisement je n’existais plus du tout, c’est quoi un déguisement s’il n’y a personne en dessous?”
― Justine Lévy, Nothing Serious